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I'm in Brooklyn and felt it while on a call with an NJ resident who was the first to say "are we having an earthquake??" Do earthquakes have a propagation speed? Might she have felt it before me?
Surface waves yes, body waves not necessarily. But surface waves are more destructive.
DO NOT get into a doorway, that's a myth. It's not a terrible place to be if it's a doorless frame, but if there is a door, it's more likely you get injured from the door smacking you than the earthquake.
DO get under a strong table. That's the safest place to be in a quake if it happens when you are indoors.
If you're outside get as far away from trees and power lines as possible (and glass), but if the ground is shaking too hard to maintain balance, stay in place. Again, you're more likely to get injured falling down than from whatever may be nearby.
If you're inside and not near a table, at the very least cover your head if possible and move away from bookcases and other tall or top heavy objects.
Also, if you did feel it, please help the USGS study earthquakes by filling out a Did You Feel it survey: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74...
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This is not the first time you've made a post like this - just because it's a weird pet peeve of yours does not mean you are right.
its informational. TREMOR - NO life or financial loss EARTHQUAKE - life or financial loss
Didn’t even feel at all? Was in Queens, NY, strangely a couple of people around me felt it though
I'm in Forest Hills (fifth story) and at first I thought it was the usual extreme wind we get because the windows were shaking heavily. Then it got worse and I realized what it was when I felt it through the floor. I've felt at least one other in the last year or two here but my wife in the other room did not. This one was the strongest I've been through though.
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I'm in Forest Hills (fifth story) and at first I thought it was the usual extreme wind we get because the windows were shaking heavily. Then it got worse and I realized what it was when I felt it through the floor. I've felt at least one other in the last year or two here but my wife in the other room did not. This one was the strongest I've been through though.
Are you in the Kennedy?
Sitting at home in my office in Ozone Park NYC and I hear what I think is a low flying plane coming in to JFK. Happens when weather is bad and they come in lower they can rattle my windows. But the intensity grew suddenly and my entire house was shaking and everything was rattling.
At first I froze for a few seconds as I could not make sense of what I was experiencing - but it was clear this was not normal so I ran like hell downstairs and outside. While running I was trying to make sense of the shaking: did a truck or plane crash? no not this long - maybe the elevated A train up the block is collapsing? An explosion? some kind of cataclysm? WTF is happening! But after I reached the side door and the house was still shaking I realized this is an earthquake. Earthquake was not the first thing on my mind for sure as I have lived in NYC all my life and never felt anything like this.
Fucking nuts
I'm in Brooklyn and felt it while on a call with an NJ resident who was the first to say "are we having an earthquake??" Do earthquakes have a propagation speed? Might she have felt it before me?